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Subject: What is the chance you will get this multiple-choice question correct?

Yes, I know my username is the 330th sequel to a terrible movie. You don't have to keep telling me.

Poll: What is the chance you will get this multiple-choice question correct?  [closed]
25%:  19%
(15 Votes)
50%:  30%
(24 Votes)
0%:  26%
(21 Votes)
25%:  25%
(20 Votes)
Total Votes: 80

If you chose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct?

The second 25% is not a typo.

[Edited on 12.12.2012 1:01 PM PST]

  • 12.11.2012 7:31 PM PDT

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  • 12.11.2012 7:31 PM PDT
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  • 12.11.2012 7:32 PM PDT

''Hell is other people.''

Statistically speaking, there is a 50% chance anything and everything will happen.

  • 12.11.2012 7:32 PM PDT

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.

The answer is, Apples.

  • 12.11.2012 7:32 PM PDT
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  • 12.11.2012 7:32 PM PDT

There are two 25% answers.
Wut do?

  • 12.11.2012 7:33 PM PDT

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Camping like a 'mouth breather'
If Fed Ex and UPS merged into one company, would it be called Fed Up?

I don't want to start another account for a digital number that has no true value in ten years.

Since there's 2 options that are correct, being 25% as answer, out of the 4 options, it is 50%

  • 12.11.2012 7:33 PM PDT

Alt account #4 because i can!

100% should be an option. because no matter what i answer, it is right.

  • 12.11.2012 7:33 PM PDT

Well, this just broke my mind. Brb getting it fixed.

  • 12.11.2012 7:33 PM PDT

33.33%

  • 12.11.2012 7:33 PM PDT
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I give up, whats the answer?

  • 12.11.2012 7:34 PM PDT
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If you assign every letter of the alphabet a number, a is 1, b is 2, etc., and you take all of the values of the word "MATH", and add them, you get 42. So math is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

You have a one in four chance.

  • 12.11.2012 7:35 PM PDT

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  • 12.11.2012 7:35 PM PDT

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.


Posted by: CrazyT
You have a one in four chance.

A surprising amount of people think 1/4 = 1/2.

  • 12.11.2012 7:36 PM PDT

Every time I read something that I think is the stupidest thing ever and something can't replace it, something manages to replace it.

Statistics is one the areas of mathematics where the answer is rarely intuitive.

:/

  • 12.11.2012 7:37 PM PDT

My legit Killtrocity

Camping like a 'mouth breather'
If Fed Ex and UPS merged into one company, would it be called Fed Up?

I don't want to start another account for a digital number that has no true value in ten years.


Posted by: Assassin 11D7

Posted by: CrazyT
You have a one in four chance.

A surprising amount of people think 1/4 = 1/2.
There's two options of 25%, and since its out of 4 technically 50% chance of selecting the 25% choice. Helps being in a stats class.

  • 12.11.2012 7:37 PM PDT

Yes, I know my username is the 330th sequel to a terrible movie. You don't have to keep telling me.


Posted by: CrazyT
You have a one in four chance.


But you have two 1/4 chances, which makes it a 1/2, but 1/2 is not correct for there are 4 answers, which gives you a 1/4, etc.

  • 12.11.2012 7:55 PM PDT


Posted by: RedXRulez
Statistically speaking, there is a 50% chance anything and everything will happen.


Oh dear god, not another one.

  • 12.11.2012 7:56 PM PDT


Posted by: KP12b
I give up, whats the answer?


There deliberately is no correct answer.

[Edited on 12.11.2012 7:57 PM PST]

  • 12.11.2012 7:57 PM PDT

No u

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  • 12.11.2012 7:57 PM PDT

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.


Posted by: DarkVader9494

Posted by: Assassin 11D7

Posted by: CrazyT
You have a one in four chance.

A surprising amount of people think 1/4 = 1/2.
There's two options of 25%, and since its out of 4 technically 50% chance of selecting the 25% choice. Helps being in a stats class.

I believe those are two different options. 25%, and 25% 2.0.

  • 12.11.2012 7:58 PM PDT
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Saw this question back in philosophy.

  • 12.11.2012 8:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: SawzeBawse
100% should be an option. because no matter what i answer, it is right.

  • 12.11.2012 8:02 PM PDT

Yes, I know my username is the 330th sequel to a terrible movie. You don't have to keep telling me.


Posted by: DarkVader9494

Posted by: Assassin 11D7

Posted by: CrazyT
You have a one in four chance.

A surprising amount of people think 1/4 = 1/2.
There's two options of 25%, and since its out of 4 technically 50% chance of selecting the 25% choice. Helps being in a stats class.


A or D: There's two 25%'s. Now, you might think that with four answers, only one being right, the answer would be 25%, but since there's two of them, the probability goes up to 50%, making the answer wrong the moment you choose it.

B: If you noticed that 25% is the normal probability, and you noticed there's actually two of them, then you might think you're being clever by picking 50%. You're not. Since there's only one answer with 50%, the actual probability assuming that answer is correct would go down to 25%, once again making the answer wrong the moment you choose it.

C: 0%. There is none of the answers are right. While technically true, it is also technically wrong. It's a "this statement is false" paradox. Since all other answers have been proven inaccurate, then this is the only answer left. If you're wrong, then there's a 0% chance of getting the right answer, making that answer right, forcing the real answer to shift once again to 25%, and then to 50%, and then to 0%, rinse and repeat.


Posted by: ankerd123

Posted by: SawzeBawse
100% should be an option. because no matter what i answer, it is right.


Well, it isn't. :P

  • 12.11.2012 8:06 PM PDT

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